“In the past year, the world surpassed 7bn people. Two billion of these people are online and of these 1bn own smartphones.

“For every person online there are two that are not,” Schmidt noted. He said that today Android smartphones cost $200 on average – in a few years, Android smartphones could cost less than $20, and he wants to put one in every pocket on earth.

“The weak will be made strong and those with nothing will have something,” he told the Mobile World Congress in February.